BETHLEHEM, Pa. – An Olympian and former Lehigh County commissioner pleaded guilty Monday to harassing a\u00a0Bethlehem woman.<\/p>\n
Marty Nothstein pleaded guilty to\u00a0one count of disorderly conduct, one count of harassment, and one count of defiant trespass, according to the Northampton County District Attorney’s Office.<\/p>\n
The DA’s office said he was sentenced to two years of probation and will not face jail time. He was ordered to pay fines and was issued a no-contact order prohibiting him from contacting the woman or her family, according to the\u00a0DA’s office.<\/p>\n
In a news release, the\u00a0DA’s office said the guilty plea came after a plea arrangement between the Commonwealth and Nothstein’s defense attorney.<\/p>\n
Part of the plea agreement included the PFAs that Nothstein filed against the woman to be dropped, according to the\u00a0news release. A PFA filed by the woman against Nothstein remains in effect for one year, the\u00a0DA’s office said.<\/p>\n
Nothstein had been facing stalking and criminal mischief charges.<\/p>\n
Those charges stemmed from a series of incidents involving his ex-girlfriend in 2024.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors said after the woman broke up with him, Nothstein showed up at her house and workplace, and damaged some of her property.<\/p>\n
Nothstein, an Emmaus native, won an Olympic gold medal in track cycling in 2000.<\/p>\n
He later ran for Congress, losing to Democrat Susan Wild.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. – An Olympian and former Lehigh County commissioner pleaded guilty Monday to harassing a\u00a0Bethlehem woman. Marty…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,1391],"class_list":["post-153438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-bethlehem-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}